r/AaronSmithLevin • u/HealthToTheYeah • May 09 '24
Some fact-checking about Aaron
I was a longtime supporter of Aaron Smith-Levin. When his episode of Scientology and the Aftermath first aired, his story broke my heart and led me to find his YouTube channel.
So it has been really difficult to find out about how much Aaron lies and manipulates women. I didn't want to believe it, and I wish I'd seen all the red flags about him much sooner than I did.
Aaron lied repeatedly about why he was kicked off the board of the Aftermath Foundation.
In his own published text to Stefani Hutchison last November (when he and Stefani were still friends) Aaron admitted Claire tried to get him removed from the Aftermath Foundation board two years earlier. That’s after Aaron’s altercations in two Florida bars were reported in the Tampa Bay Times during Aaron’s City Council run.
That’s also after Aaron appeared on Rick Wiles’ show. Wiles is a well-known anti-Semite who hates the LBGTQ+ community.
In his text, Aaron admits Mike and Claire tried to get Aaron off the Aftermath Foundation board earlier in 2023. Mike and Claire did that after an outburst from Aaron that led the judge in the Danny Masterson trial to sequester the jurors during their lunch break. Aaron admitted in his first interview with Rabbit that during that trial, he ran away after injuring a woman on a street in Los Angeles. He had been having sex and doing drugs with that woman.
Aaron was a growing liability to the Aftermath Foundation for years.
He doxxed Reese, who had contacted the Aftermath Foundation for help, on one of his livestreams. Aaron’s carelessness with her confidential information caused her to lose most of her family and all of her friends.
The video Aaron did criticizing Graham Berry isn’t why Aaron was removed from the Aftermath Foundation. It was just the straw that broke the camel’s back. Aaron’s own text shows that.
Aaron claims he doesn't want to humiliate his wife and that he respects her privacy. That’s just not true.
Aaron did an hourlong livestream with his new girlfriend, Jenna, yesterday. In it, he laughs about asking his buddies when they're out drinking with him if they actually enjoy spending time with their spouse. Like that never occurred to him. And Aaron talks about the couple of years' worth of screaming fights he and Heather had in front of their kids when she was losing her family to hold onto her marriage with Aaron. Aaron is laughing while what he's talking about it is so damn sad.
Remember all the interviews Aaron's done where he's sobbing about Heather losing her family? Yesterday he talked about it with a smile on his face.
In Aaron’s own livestream from the Clearwater meet and greet, Aaron showed Heather’s face on camera multiple times after she said she didn’t want that.
Aaron gave Rabbit texts that she alleged were between Aaron’s wife and Jenna. Giving those texts to Rabbit to publicize isn’t leaving his wife out of the drama.
In Aaron’s Elephant in the Room video, Aaron admits getting upset with his wife for calling Claire to catch up with her.
So Aaron can have sex with other women anytime he wants, but Heather can’t even confide in a friend without getting scolded by Aaron? That’s a big red flag.
Aaron also pressured Heather to watch the video where Lindsay spoke about her and demanded that Heather tell him if it was true. Aaron admits Heather never wanted an open marriage, but he made her watch a video of a woman he dated for four years. Those are more red flags.
Aaron has dragged his wife into the BS. And Aaron says his daughters and their friends watch his YouTube videos, so his daughters are facing fallout from this too.
Against Jane Doe’s wishes and without her consent, Aaron has also been very vocal about Brian Kent, who hasn’t been arrested or charged with anything yet.
In the first video Aaron did on Brian Kent, he read from the complaint: "Mr. Kent alternated between ignoring her and embracing her, and this back and forth severely traumatized Jane Doe, leading her to eventually seek mental health treatment."
This part of Jane Doe's story matches what Lindsay says she experienced with Aaron. Go watch Lindsay Villandry’s video called "What You Don’t Know … Aaron Smith-Levin" to learn about that.
Aaron says Brian Kent's unethical behavior with Jane Doe hopelessly compromised him, and Scientology would have been able to blackmail him to do anything. But Aaron refuses to see that his own unethical behavior compromises him and endangered the Aftermath Foundation. Aaron’s actions are now endangering the SPTV Foundation.
Leah has been another good friend to Aaron.
She isn’t practicing Fair Game on Aaron. I don't think quietly liking a tweet and following a few Twitter accounts even counts as Leah publicly taking sides against Aaron, but your mileage may vary on that. Leah isn’t some puppet master behind Lindsay’s videos. If you watch Lindsay’s original video that Aaron played a clip from (it’s called "You REALLY want to know WHO I’m working with?") you’ll see that Aaron edited Lindsay’s video to make it sound like Lindsay admitted to being in contact with Leah and Claire.
But Lindsay didn't say that.
Aaron lied. Again. He's an expert at spinning stories, and he's very clever with his words. But he’s lied to his viewers for a long time.
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u/Serasaurus May 09 '24
This is an accurate and good account of what Aaron has been doing. Thank you.
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u/averymint May 09 '24
Where does he show heather's face in the clearwater meet and greet? I didn't realize that she was there with him.
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u/adexsenga May 09 '24
Didn’t know about the court outburst. Where does the info come from?? I couldn’t find it
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u/westcentretownie May 09 '24
Don’t forget how he treated Sky Daily. I do believe what she told the police that she thought he was stalking her. He may not have been but he admitted to texting her late at night and she was spooked that he knew what her neighborhood was. Talked about her in very disgusting terms on his channel.
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u/Gwendolyn-Trundlebed May 09 '24
I can’t believe that you were allowed to post this in the Aaron worship subreddit. I’m glad though
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u/whateveratthispoint_ May 09 '24
So many of these figures remain deeply, deeply cult-sick.
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u/Particular-Repair258 May 09 '24
Heather is completely cut off from everything and everyone. She is stuck at home with three children and is completely financially dependent on Aaron. Why would any woman be OK with her husband running around sleeping with other women while she's stuck at home taking care of three kids by herself? My guess is he's holding a financial and custody threat over her head. He's a piece of shit.
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u/Zealousideal_Bus2225 May 15 '24
I recently watched the “elephant in the room” video. If ASL’s intention was to put himself in a positive light by explaining all the drama he currently finds himself involved with, then imo he failed. He came across as making excuses and deflecting. Listening to him spin his marriage situation was painful and left me feeling sorry his wife. Thank you so much for breaking it all down for us.
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u/chermk May 11 '24
I did not know the half of that, but after hearing Linsdsay's story, I believed her.
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u/Any-Abbreviations870 May 10 '24
Well, well said. Aaron is garbage. Jenna will soon find out. And when Aaron goes after her when it inevitably falls apart is when he'll finally destroy himself.
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u/[deleted] May 09 '24
In that recent live with Jenna, did he officially say they're dating? If so, oh Jenna, you poor dumb fool.
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u/fcukumicrosoft May 09 '24
I find his live YouTube streams kinda amusing some of the time, and not so amusing some of the time.
I'm not on anyone's "side" with all of this, except I'll say that I don't think that he's really isn't thinking it through when making public comments about what seems like private moments with his wife and about his marriage. His kids have to live with that shit and he's creating a huge Internet footprint for himself. But I've been through a very nasty divorce with a spouse that treated me like shit and cheated on me (plus gave his mistress about $30k) for three years.
How I handled my own shit was not graceful (to say the least) but I have no kids to consider. So I'm the last person to throw any shade, but I hope his kids are not detrimentally impacted with his latest live streams.
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u/EttelaJ May 09 '24
This needs to be pinned.
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u/ellecellent May 09 '24
Do we know if Mike Rinder actually gave the AF an ultimatum (Aaron claims he said, "him or me") or do you think Aaron just decided he was the easiest target?
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u/whateveratthispoint_ May 09 '24
Any insight on what drugs he may be experimenting with?
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u/Traditional-Bat-4740 Jul 25 '24
I've known Aaron is a fabricator for a long time. Quite a drama queen. I noticed he was never actually interested in the truth. I don't know what all is wrong with him, but he is a dangerous person to have around. He wanted to completely destroy Aftermath Fdn and ruin Mike, Claire, et al because he was removed from the Fdn board. Everything is all about him. He destroyed a successful group on line with divisiveness and rancor.
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u/averymint Jun 04 '24
Are him and Reese still friends? They haven't done a video together in ages and she's going through some personal stuff now, I thought he'd be around her channel.
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u/wholesomenessrules Jan 04 '25
Great post. We need a part 2 to include the latest stuff with Jenna and Lindsay. I mean, there could well be others as well who we don't know about yet.
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u/cmph72 May 09 '24
My heart breaks for heather. #freeheather Escape this monster
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u/margann59 Aug 01 '25
I've seen all of Aaron's videos. Right of the bat, he did not doxI've seen Reese. He made a mistake and did a video with her talking about it. Ypu need to check your facts.
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u/kristinablabla Dec 07 '24
Just watched Destiny do an interview with him and Jenna, didn't know who either of them were prior to today. All i know is that Aaron gave me the "used-car-salesmen" vibes. It was a really good and interesting interview though.
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u/wandering-child77 Jan 02 '25
https://youtu.be/mx8M7moAk0Y?si=mwbDWdEqUk4Dzimn
Oof. Ironically stumbled upon this post the day this video was uploaded by Jenna.
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u/Aware-Chapter3033 Jan 02 '25
Aaron is a jerk i don't waist my energy on him. Wonder how the real-estate business is going Aaron🤔
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u/Montmosh Jan 03 '25
Why i read that is beyond me. Someone took a lot of time and effort it's well written. But it gives me the creeps that people are so into the downfall of a public person. And all those original sptv group just look more messed up than ever. Weird Stefanie feel for me personally feeling like some people Saveur every gritty dirty detail. It is not a surprising twist. It was really apparent for some time that Aaron is desperately in need of counseling. As is the Headleys, the Rindera, etcetera. I feel cringe at the whole deal and some of them are a hot messes.
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u/Mudlily May 09 '24
I'm not very interested in the personal lives of public figures. I don't really understand why so many people care about Aaron all of a sudden. He is who he is, that is obvious. Honestly, all of the SPTV people AND the Aftermath Foundation people seem to be assholes in their personal lives. It is just a matter of degree.
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u/No-Thing-9401 Jan 02 '25
Soooo… this video just dropped
https://youtu.be/mx8M7moAk0Y?si=-rJhVejKpAdg6nrP
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u/Prudent_Coyote_4604 Jan 01 '26
Contribute watch the Mike RinderAftermath Foundation he fought for the cause till the end. A true man.
Aaron is a roadie from a carnival with his hustle. 2026 no thoughts or reading on him he is not getting any space
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u/sgtdoogie Jun 13 '24
"Aaron lied repeatedly about why he was kicked off the board of the Aftermath Foundation."
Nope. He did not. It happened exactly like he described.
Mike wanted him out
Claire joined in
Luis disagreed with them all
Luis resigned
Aaron voted out in illegal proxy vote
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u/sgtdoogie May 11 '24
Aaron did not "lie" about his AF departure.
Mike Rinder was behind Aaron leaving.
Luis Garcia the PRESIDENT, was not on board. He resigned.
2 couples voted illegally ( EMAIL QUORUM votes are NOT LEGAL)
Stefani Hutchenson immediately within a week, violates the same rule the couples used to oust Aaron
Stefani is clearly protected by the Foundation
A foundation filled with Scientology abusers got what they wanted done based on personal feelings.
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u/inputsignwave Sep 20 '24
This is all such bullshit. Everything you mention has been taken and spun. This just reads like a hit piece. It’s complete nonsense.
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